[no audio] [applause] [applause] welcome. We are greeting you as jim brady would greet you, with an irish blessing. We begin the service to celebrate his life. May the road rise up to me to, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sunshine warm up on your one, and the rains fall soft your fields. It until we meet again, may god hold you in the palm of his hand. Have walls forys the wind and a roof for the rain. You, those youer love near you, and all your heart might desire. May Saint Patrick guard you wherever you go and guide you in whatever you do. Protection be a blessing to always. Good morning. I am joe lockhart. Be in a very small fraternity of former White House Press secretarys. To walk up after a prayer, subtly different than what i used to say to myself. Please god, let me get to the next hour. On behalf of the brady family, we want to thank you for coming. Your presence means so much to them and to the family. We have some former press secretarys here. Thank you for comi
What was your favorite day at the white house . The day we renamed the press Briefing Room the jim brady white house Briefing Room. It was my favorite day. It honored jim and i think it brought great joy to jim, sarah and the family. Probably just as important for me, it honor his legacy forever. Whoever the president is or the press secretary is, where ever they stand on issues, when they Say Something it will be recorded as being said in the James S Brady white house Briefing Room. That is an important acknowledgment. We are going to hear from a lot of people. We will start professionally and in washington with a couple of people jim worked with in the reagan white house. Sheila tate will speak next, she was Nancy Reagans press secretary, many of you know her. She has a special message she wants to share. And jim brought along Mark Wineberg who will share some of his experiences in the white house. Sheila . Good morning, everybody. Trying to figure out where to put my water without s
Then the Funeral Service of former washington, d. C. Mayor marion barry followed by Supreme Court Justice Samuel alito and former Florida Governor jeb bush talking about the bill of rights. On the next washington journal we look at the state of the Affordable Care act and what changes are coming to healthcare coverage in 2015. Our guests are julie rovner and margot sangerkatz of the New York Times the upshot. Well also take your calls on the healthcare law. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 eastern. You can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Tomorrow night on cspan, a special presentation remembering public figures passed away in 2014. Beginning with former Senate Majority leader howard baker. Well show you a 2007 interview we had with historian Richard Norton spigot which looked at senator bakers career in congress and as chief of staff to Ronald Reagan. I guess in february of 1981 the first serious challenge i had as the new majority leader, the first repub
It was great to hear from the journalists about their relationship with jim. One of the advantages to having this many press secretaries together is that they agreed to hold a background briefing to go over some of the planning reports in detail. There has been allusions to a glass of water to. I hope the document proves us to be conservative estimates. Everyone has made reference here today about jim and sarahs work when it comes to gun safety and gun violence. Our next two speakers are people who have lived in the trenches on this issue over the last two decades and have made a difference in a terribly difficult and divisive issue. Dan gross is the president of the Brady Campaign to prevent gun violence. Before that, he started the center to prevent Youth Violence and has devoted much of his life to the cause. Gail hoffman, who many of you know, was central to putting this event together, has been at this since the late 1980s with handgun control, was the point person for all of us i
So the basement does not get flooded. This is what im saying and members like you are appointed by the mayor and they have no history and what happens, this becomes a comedy. By you all taking over, you need the foundation of our fathers. You do that in one way. So your director needs to sit down with you all and give you all an orientation. You all need to call Bishop Ernest jackson to see whether he has a valid case. You need to call the director of dpw muhammad because i sent him over 1,000 photographs. So he can testify. You need to call blackwell to see whether decosta is saying is true. What im saying is the office of the Successor Agency is like a joke rubber stamping. You all have obligations, but how can you all fulfill your obligations if your heart is not in the right place. Your heart is in the right place when it comes to transactions, behind closed doors. Your heart is not in the right place when promises were made that monies were expended so you know there is a link. No